National Centre of Competence in Research

The NCCR North-South was one of 27 National Centres of Competence in Research implemented by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Additional support was provided by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. >> More

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Integrative Node

The Integrative Node is a vehicle for integration and
synthesis of all NCCR North-South programme activities. It forms a hub
of exchange between the Thematic Nodes and comprises three key projects:

In the Special Project on Global Issues,
senior researchers examine the large-scale relevance of the programme’s
accumulated findings, in particular concerning global debates on topics
like food security, poverty, natural resource management, migration and
climate change. By surveying the results of many studies from inside
and outside the programme, the researchers aim to identify patterns of
change or recurring contexts that may be used to determine suitable
policy responses at the global level.

In the Transversal Project,
all programme partners are encouraged to build bridges and exchange
knowledge by initiating joint projects or events that complement,
synthesise or cut across their lines of research. It enables
geographically distant research groups – in, say, Switzerland, Bolivia
and Nepal – to organise conferences and produce books or special journal
editions on shared topics like decentralisation or gender.

Efforts in the Partnership Regions Project
seek to reinforce the Regional Coordination Offices in launching new
research projects in their regions and contributing to solutions for
sustainable development well into the future. This entails forging
promising new paths of sustainability research, anchoring such research
in the local academic landscape, establishing lasting institutional
structures (e.g. university institutes), testing findings in local
settings (e.g. PAMS) and cultivating communication with policymakers.